THE VOICE OF HORSE RACING IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 2 January 2014 ISSUE 519 Dhs 5 Muarrab and Haatheq star at Jebel Ali for Sheikh Hamdan Muarrab Haatheq Forevertheoptimist and Blue Tiger’s Eye seek Meydan repeats Forevertheoptimist - 3rd Jan 2013 Blue Tiger’s Eye - 3rd Jan 2013 Big guns make final preparations as Carnival countdown continues ©Dubai Racing Watkins ©Dubai Club/Andrew © www.godolphin.com © Saeed bin Suroor Mike de Kock AL ADIYAT WISHES ALL OUR READERS HAPPY NEW YEAR Horse of the Year Invasor By Candy Stripes Brilliant G1 SW Classic Winner Daaher Jazil By Awesome Again By Seeking the Gold Graded Stakes Winner Sire of 16% Stakes Horses Mustanfar Intidab By Unbridled By Phone Trick G1 Millionaire, Winner of Albertus Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile Maximus By Albert the Great Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager 4600 Ft. Springs Road Inquiries to: (859) 224-4585 Lexington, KY 40513 www.shadwellfarm.com PHOTOS © EQUI-SPORT / ELLIOTT HESS / BARBARA D. LIVINGSTON 2 January 2014 3 Al Muhairi and O’Shea top the charts Contents HE Jockeys’ Championship NEWS 3-9 looks an interesting BLOODSTOCK 10-11 one at the moment with ENDURANCE 13 Tcurrent champion Tadhg O’Shea, leading the way this season, NEXT WEEK’S RACE CONDITIONS 15 suspended for the next three DEREK THOMPSON 17 meetings and his nearest pursuer NICHOLAS GODFREY / TOM JENNINGS 19 Wayne Smith sidelined for at least another four weeks. HOWARD WRIGHT / ALASTAIR NICOLSON 21 O’Shea (19) must still be PAT CUMMINGS / JOHN BERRY 23 favourite with Smith (14) sure to PHOTO GALLERY 25 be looking at a larger deficit by the time he returns to action. However, STATISTICS 26-27 Jebel Ali’s meeting last week Musabah Al Muhairi Tadhg O’Shea AKHBAR AL KHAIL 28-29 produced a couple of potential QATAR NEWS 30-31 challengers in the shape of Sheikh Obviously 16 winners is a lot Muhairi (18) who returned to Hamdan’s two retained jockeys. to find but it should be noted the top of the tree with a Jebel REVIEWS / RESULTS His second jockey, Dane Hanagan rode 10 Carnival Ali treble. Oertel looks certain JEBEL ALI (FRIDAY) 32-33 O’Neill (12) rode one winner last winners last year and will have to saddle plenty of Purebred PREVIEWS / CARDS week so remains a fair way off the plenty of chances throughout this Arabian winners throughout pace but is currently third in the year’s Carnival. the rest of the campaign and MEYDAN (THURSDAY) 35 table. However, the owner’s first The Trainers’ Championship probably remains favourite, MEYDAN CARD/ANALYSIS 36-41 jockey, Paul Hanagan (3) could is starting to look a match while previous champion, Ali ABU DHABI (SUNDAY) 42 yet make a charge having missed between current champion Ernst Rashid Al Raihe (13) will hope the early part of the season. Oertel (17) and Musabah Al he can close the gap. ABU DHABI CARD 43-47 Editorial Gosden in great form Mark Jackson Editor/writer K trainer John Gosden Art Director/Designer Eng. Mohamed Maher enjoyed a prolific December, saddling 10 Sub-Designer Ismail KV Uwinners from his first 19 runners, Nisar Shaikh highlighted by the Lingfield Listed race victory of Dick Doughtywylie Graphic & Scanner Abdul Majeed from stable companion Gatewood. Nadim Ahmed Sadly though, his stable star The Fugue was, not for the first time in Library Abdulla Khalifa recent years on the international K. Aboobacker stage, an unlucky second – on this occasion in the Group 1 Hong Photographers K.P. Majeed Kong Vase at Sha Tin. Abdul Razzak Hopefully we will see her at Meydan trying to emulate stable companion Dar Re Mi, Correspondents winner of the 2010 Dubai Dick Doughtywylie (third from left) beats stable companion Sheema Classic for Lord and Overseas Gatewood (second from left) Lady Lloyd-Webber, owner and Derek Thomson Alastair Nicolson breeders of both star mares. Howard Wright John Berry Pat Cummings Nicholas Godfrey Al Jahouri increasing Tom Jennings Bloodstock Beverley Townsend Thoroughbred contingent Local Tim Aroon BY TIM AROON number to four,” Al Jahouri said. Harry Tregoning Brett Williams ISCAL’S maiden victory “Obviously the idea is to have a at Jebel Ali last week, the good mix of both the Arabians Feedback first Thoroughbred winner and Thoroughbreds. It will be a Ffor owner Sheikh Mansour bin gradual process, though. English Editorial Zayed Al Nahyan and trainer Fiscal, under Manuel Chaves, Majed Al Jahouri, may have set edged out Police Force by a Tele.:+971- 4 342 9999 - Fax: +971- 4 342 2121 a new precedent. head in a maiden over 1400m For Back Numbers, Subscriptions and Photography enquiries, The Al Wathba Stables in at Jebel Ali. please contact: Abu Dhabi is, predominantly, “He is good on the turf Essa Hassan Al Basher, Mobile: +971-50 452 6636 a stronghold for the Purebred but didn’t like the Tapeta at P.O. Box 53300, Dubai, UAE. mail: [email protected] Arabians, but Fiscal’s success Meydan,” Al Jahouri said of the another race at Jebel Ali, perhaps Al-Adiyat is published and printed is likely to create a pathway for 4yo bay son of Cape Cross. over 1600m.” by the Dubai Horse Racing Information Centre. more Thoroughbreds to arrive. “We wanted to try him out on Fiscal was third behind Factory All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be “We already have two new the dirt and he seems to like it. Time on his UAE debut, a 1400m reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by Thoroughbred arrivals at the The idea is to run him on the turf turf race at Meydan in February any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording stables, a 2yo from the United at the Dubai World Cup Carnival, 2012 after arriving with two runs or otherwise, without the prior written permission of States and a 3yo from South if he can make it to the required under his belt when trained by the publisher. Opinions expressed in Al-Adiyat do not Africa, which increases our level. If not we will find him John Gosden in the Uk. necessarily reflect those of the publishers. DERRINSTOWN STUD / &.-'"'%&' I]^ginnZVghd[]dghZbVch]^e! `cdlaZY\ZZmeZg^ZcXZ# 9Zgg^chidlcViI]^gin"lZ]VkZcZkZglVkZgZY[gdbdjg YZh^gZid\^kZWgZZYZghVXXZhhidhdbZd[i]ZWZhiWaddYa^cZh^c i]ZldgaYVi[ZZhl]^X]i]ZnXVcV[[dgYVcYi]^heda^Xn]VhhZgkZY Wdi]i]ZhijYVcYdjgXa^Zcih[dgdkZgi]gZZYZXVYZh# =ZgZ¼hidi]ZcZmi(%nZVgh DERRINSTOWN STUD: BVncddi]!8djcin@^aYVgZ!>gZaVcYT: (*(%&+'-+''-F: (*(%&+'-+,((E:^c[d5YZgg^chidlc"hijY#^ZW:YZgg^chidlc#Xdb 2 January 2014 5 EADING UK apprentice jockey, Thomas Brown, Brown shining in Jebel Ali yellow is the latest in a long line Lof talented young jockeys to be The youngster, attached to Balding and asked whether At the time he was approached, based at Dhruba Selvaratnam’s trainer Andrew Balding’s yard Thomas was available,” said Brown was still in touch Jebel Ali Stables. while in England, arrived in Selvaratnam who has a strong with subsequent Champion Brown, who finished runner-up the UAE at the beginning of track record in spotting the riding Apprentice Jason Hart, so had a in the UK Apprentice Jockeys’ this season to ride alongside stars of the future and bringing tough decision to make. Championship last year, has Selvaratnam’s stable jockey, them to Dubai. “Andrew Balding told me that already tasted victory this season James Doyle. “I knew he was right up there at I had the chance to come out to when Selvaratnam’s Momaris was Brown follows in the stirrups of the top of the apprentices’ table Dubai to be based with Dhruba,” a five length winner at Jebel Ali at high profile former Selvaratnam and thought he looked like he Brown said. the opening meeting of the season. jockeys including Johnny Murtagh, would do well here,” continued “He said it was a good opportunity More significantly, he then Willie Supple, Brett Doyle, Pat Selvaratnam, who has trained and, basically, did I think I was rode his first Meydan winner a Smullen, William Buick and James for Jebel Ali patron, HH Sheikh going to win the apprentice fortnight ago to record his 70th Doyle, while Godolphin jockey Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, championship if I stayed?” career success, meaning he can Silvestre de Sousa also spent time for two decades. Brown decided a season no longer claim an apprentice at Jebel Ali in the past. “The only problem is that he in Dubai was too good an allowance here in the UAE. “I had seen Thomas ride over had only two winners left until opportunity to miss and prioritised Thomas Brown the summer and I knew that my he rode out his claim in the UAE the prospect of possible Dubai stable jockey, James Doyle, where apprentices can only ride World Cup Carnival rides, as Muhairi and is hopeful he may couldn’t make the first meeting up to 70 winners, as opposed to opposed to chasing Hart at home. pick up a few spare rides while in of the season so I rang Andrew 95 in the UK.” He ultimately finished on the country. 41 winners from 240 rides, to “I found out I’d nearly ridden Hart’s 51 from 369 rides, while out my claim after the Momaris Balding’s second apprentice, win and it has obviously gone now, Oisin Murphy, ended third on 38 which is a shame,” said Brown. from 226 rides. “Having the allowance just Brown comes from a ‘horsey might make it a bit easier to get family’, but the focus was on some rides, but that’s how it goes. ponies and showjumping as “Basically, I’m just going opposed to racing.